The principle of subsidiarity helps explain why labor organizers at an Amazon warehouse on Staten Island were able to build trust and win support from the rank-and-file.
Catholic Social Teaching
Posted inDispatches, Politics & Society
Partisanship is becoming a religion unto itself. How do Catholics respond in the voting booth?
Notre Dame researchers are exploring a surprisingly complex aspect of Catholic life: how Catholics vote. The report focused on the unique pressures and behaviors of “seamless garment” Catholics in making electoral decisions.
Posted inFaith, Short Take
Can you be pro-life and own guns?
When talking about gun control policies, we must center our conversation around the sanctity of human life.
Posted inFaith, Faith and Reason
We need to make the common good more than just a slogan
Christians today are split between “bottom-up” and “top-down” approaches to re-invigorating our sense of the common good.
Posted inArts & Culture, Books
Review: These six Ugandan leaders have enacted the ideals of Catholic social teaching
In “For God and My Country: Catholic Leadership in Modern Uganda,” J. J. Carney profiles a strategy for being both Catholic and catholic—both uniquely ourselves and totally for the world.
Posted inPolitics & Society, Short Take
Catholic critics of ‘woke’ ideology risk repeating the church’s Modernist crisis of over 100 years ago
The temptation is to fight the ghosts of Modernism by denigrating those working for social justice and “elites” as anti-religious co-conspirators. But this would be a disservice to the truth and to the church.
Posted inPolitics & Society, The Moral Economy
Ten things Pope Francis and Catholic social teaching taught me about the economy
I spent the past year writing about the economy through the lens of Catholic social teaching. Here’s what I learned.
Posted inDispatches, Politics & Society
To understand our battles over critical race theory and liberation theology, look to Brazil’s fight over Paulo Freire’s legacy
The current mischaracterization of Freire by the political right in Brazil has parallels with the campaign of the political right in the United States against critical race theory.
Posted inFaith, Faith and Reason
A stolen election, an insurrection, a big lie: Can Catholics unify a country engaged in an uncivil war?
If we are to differ intelligently and temperately, we must first share a great deal in common. Today, though, claims and counter-claims are made as if they were vindicated by the mere vehemence of their assertion.
Posted inFaith, Faith in Focus
I’m a 25-year-old Catholic who ran for public office. But don’t call me a politician.
Although I did not emerge victorious in the race for legislator in Nassau County’s 14th District, I did learn some valuable lessons about my country and my own beliefs along the way.